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- [tey-lerd]
- /ˈteɪ lərd/
- /ˈteɪ.ləd/
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- [tey-lerd]
- /ˈteɪ lərd/
Definitions of tailored word
- adjective tailored (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2). 1
- adjective tailored having simple, straight lines and a neat appearance: tailored slipcovers. 1
- noun tailored a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments. 1
- verb with object tailored to make by tailor's work. 1
- verb with object tailored to fashion or adapt to a particular taste, purpose, need, etc.: to tailor one's actions to those of another. 1
- verb with object tailored to fit or furnish with clothing. 1
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Origin of tailored
First appearance:
before 1855 One of the 30% newest English words
First recorded in 1855-60; tailor1 + -ed2
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Parts of speech for Tailored
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tailored popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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adj tailored
- custom-built — If something is custom-built, it is built according to someone's special requirements.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- customized — modified according to a customer's individual requirements
- made to measure — (of a garment, shoes, etc.) made in accordance with a specific individual's measurements.
- made to order — made in accordance with an individual's specifications or requirements: a made-to-order suit. Compare ready-to-wear.
adjective tailored
- adapted — If something is adapted to a particular situation or purpose, it is especially suitable for it.
- clothing — Clothing is the things that people wear.
- couturier — A couturier is a person who designs, makes, and sells expensive, fashionable clothes for women.
- customised — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- designed — made or done intentionally; intended; planned.
verb tailored
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- catered — Simple past tense and past participle of cater.
- geared — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gradated — to pass by gradual or imperceptible degrees, as one color into another.
- hemmed — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
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